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TheCondemned🇵🇸🇷🇺🇨🇳🇻🇪🇮🇷🇸🇾🇨🇺🇾🇪 retweeted
This is how you buy a presidential pardon without anyone ever writing the word "bribe"...
Julio Herrera Velutini, a Venezuelan-Italian billionaire banker, was charged in 2022 over a $300,000 scheme to get Puerto Rico's governor to remove the regulator scrutinising his banks.
In August 2025 he walked away with a plea to a single misdemeanour, a deal the judge himself called "a slap on the wrist".
Then came the pardon. This is the sequence the @nytimes article laid out, and every step of it is "legal" on its own.
Late October 2025, the Herrera family sets up a Florida company, Concord Partners.
Days later, they hire Iraqi-American @AlinaHabba as its general counsel. $10 million a year for four years, plus bonuses. More than $50 million in total.
At the time, Habba was a senior adviser to Attorney General Pam Bondi at the Justice Department, overseeing US attorneys, and one of Trump's own personal lawyers.
She starts on 1 January 2026. Weeks later, Trump grants Herrera a FULL and unconditional pardon. The governor he was accused of bribing, Wanda Vázquez, is pardoned too.
Then the money alongside it. Herrera's daughter, Isabela, a US citizen, gave $3.5 million to the pro-Trump super PAC MAGA Inc., $2.5 million in December 2024 and $1 million in July 2025. The Campaign Legal Center has asked the FEC to investigate those as straw donations.
Money into the PAC. A $50 million job handed to a serving DOJ adviser who is also the president's personal lawyer. A pardon weeks after she starts.
Habba denies any role in the pardon and calls the suggestion false. Maybe. But you do not need a signed confession when the timeline is this circumstantial.
This is the modern mechanism. Nobody hands over a briefcase rather you just hire the right person at the right price, you fund the right PAC through the right relative, and the outcome desired is the desire that gets delivered, with every single transaction technically lawful.
That is what a captured justice system looks like from the outside.
Full story on New York Times...
𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗔𝗟, 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗜𝗦𝗘!!
TheCondemned🇵🇸🇷🇺🇨🇳🇻🇪🇮🇷🇸🇾🇨🇺🇾🇪 retweeted
I am proud to endorse @samhusseini's campaign for the U.S. Congress. Sam is running independent of the two genocidal parties of the billionaire class as a Green Party candidate.
Sam has shown a willingness to go to battle against the Democratic Party, and has already publicly and courageously confronted Democratic genocide purveyors like Senator Chuck Schumer and Biden's Secretary of State Antony Blinken. This is urgently needed if we are going to turn the tables on the political establishment and fight for a different kind of society.
I strongly support Sam’s calls for an end to all aid to the apartheid Israeli state, for universal public healthcare, and to dramatically increase taxes on the rich.
Ansarallah & the Iraqi militias need to have victory celebration in downtown Tel Aviv
One thing to keep in mind as another escalation looms: Hezbollah Iraq, a militia not very far behind Yamen's Ansar Allah in military capabilities, has not entered the chat yet in this war. Maybe in this coming round we'll finally see it in serious action. The government of Iraq has made a big mistake today, closing the Iranian border - just like Saudi Arabia did when it attacked that airplane flying from Iran to Yemen, for which it is now paying a heavy price.
Iraq needs to be liberated, and it will be
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Agree. Even from a US-imperialist perspective, Israel gives no net benefit to the US, and in fact makes the US position in the ME much more difficult than it has to be. I should think this would be obvious right now. There is nothing the US wants or needs for itself that it could not get more easily without Israel. The notion that Israel is an asset for the US, its helpful "aircraft carrier" or, per Biden "If it didn't exist, we'd have to invent it," is a trope propagated by Israel. Because Israel desperately needs the US, it wants Americans to feel that they desperately need Israel. Israel may be a product of (British and) American imperialism, in the sense it could not have come into being nor continue to exist without American imperial-power patronage, but it does not produce substantial benefit to US imperialism. It's a parasite that controls the host by making the host think the host depends on it.
Leftists might feel uncomfortable with this, which is the foundation of many US imperialists' anti-Zionism, but it's true, and we should recognize how it helps the anti-Zionist movement. There is nothing in the world more important than defeating and eliminating Zionism, however one conceives of its relation to US imperialism.
TheCondemned🇵🇸🇷🇺🇨🇳🇻🇪🇮🇷🇸🇾🇨🇺🇾🇪 retweeted
You Macron are helping to undermine the Republic. You support the Genocide in Palestine, #NATO Proxy War in Ukraine, illegal US / Israeli attacks on Iran, Saudi attacks on Yemen, Militarisation of Europe - all at great cost to people in France + Europe. Problems start with you...
TheCondemned🇵🇸🇷🇺🇨🇳🇻🇪🇮🇷🇸🇾🇨🇺🇾🇪 retweeted
BUSTED IN JERUSALEM:
A well-known Israeli teenager in a wheelchair, who draws sympathy and cash from tourists by claiming 𝗛𝗔𝗠𝗔𝗦 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗧 𝗛𝗜𝗠 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗟𝗘𝗚𝗦 on Oct. 7 and left him paralyzed, has apparently been 𝗖𝗔𝗨𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗙𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗜𝗧 𝗔𝗟𝗟.
TheCondemned🇵🇸🇷🇺🇨🇳🇻🇪🇮🇷🇸🇾🇨🇺🇾🇪 retweeted
ANY MEMBER OF CONGRESS WHO VOTED YES ON SECTION 219 HAS BETRAYED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
Our military, intelligence capabilities, and national security exist to serve the United States of America, not a foreign government.
Further entangling our defense infrastructure with Israel is an outrageous surrender of independent judgment and violation of our sovereignty.
You were elected to represent the American people, not the Israeli government.
Anyone who puts the interests of a foreign nation ahead of the country they swore an oath to serve has no business holding public office. VOTE THEM OUT!!!
That's a betrayal of the public trust, and voters should hold every one of them accountable.
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Everyone should pay attention to Albania. The revolution is starting there.
Albania is not for sale. 140 consecutive days of protest against Zionism and Epstein Class.
I stand with you Albanians 🇦🇱
TheCondemned🇵🇸🇷🇺🇨🇳🇻🇪🇮🇷🇸🇾🇨🇺🇾🇪 retweeted
Judge Napolitano @Judgenap: “If I were in Michigan, I would vote for Abdul el Sayed @AbdulElSayed and I would encourage everyone in Michigan to do the same. Mike Rogers @MikeRogersForMI is a war-loving, spy-loving, constitution-hating two-bit thug, who has no right to be in the government.”
Europe’s Diesel Winter Is Coming, and Washington Is About to Make It Worse sonar21.com/europes-diesel-w…
Yeah, and Ansar Allah is still going to kick their ass.
They most certainly won’t abandon the money laundering suicide mission in Ukraine.
I’m amazed the #EuroStooges are so willing to commit suicide for the Empire. This 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
I hope the scenes in France wake more people up to the fact that the Ukraine and Iran war have destroyed Europe. And that this was very intentional.
Both wars need to end. Now. I’m sick of all the people with their heads in the sand about this. The EU is a traitorous organisation. Russia and Iran are not the boogeymen. Our enemies are within our own borders.
We need cheap energy or our way of life dies and we become permanent underclass slaves. Is that what people want? The wars must end. Now. We should be up in arms about this. Ffs.
Candidates like Matthew are the only ones worth voting for.
TO THE FEW WHO ATTACKED ME FOR SAYING “FUCK ISRAEL” — GO READ THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND THE BILL OF RIGHTS.
This country was founded on the rejection of tyranny, blind allegiance, and unquestionable authority.
The First Amendment doesn't exist to protect speech that makes you comfortable. IT EXISTS TO PROTECT SPEECH THAT MAKES YOU UNCOMFORTABLE.
You don't get to wrap yourself in the American flag, preach about freedom, and then demand that Americans shut their mouths when they criticize a TINY foreign government.
THAT'S NOT PATRIOTISM. THAT'S HYPOCRISY. THAT'S TREASON.
And if your loyalty to a foreign government outweighs your commitment to the constitutional rights of your fellow Americans, YOU HAVE BETRAYED THE VERY PRINCIPLES THIS NATION WAS FOUNDED UPON.
TheCondemned🇵🇸🇷🇺🇨🇳🇻🇪🇮🇷🇸🇾🇨🇺🇾🇪 retweeted
TO THE FEW WHO ATTACKED ME FOR SAYING “FUCK ISRAEL” — GO READ THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND THE BILL OF RIGHTS.
This country was founded on the rejection of tyranny, blind allegiance, and unquestionable authority.
The First Amendment doesn't exist to protect speech that makes you comfortable. IT EXISTS TO PROTECT SPEECH THAT MAKES YOU UNCOMFORTABLE.
You don't get to wrap yourself in the American flag, preach about freedom, and then demand that Americans shut their mouths when they criticize a TINY foreign government.
THAT'S NOT PATRIOTISM. THAT'S HYPOCRISY. THAT'S TREASON.
And if your loyalty to a foreign government outweighs your commitment to the constitutional rights of your fellow Americans, YOU HAVE BETRAYED THE VERY PRINCIPLES THIS NATION WAS FOUNDED UPON.
I’ll get the popcorn
IRAN IS EAGERLY ANTICIPATING A RENEWED ATTACK BY ISRAEL AND THE US.
IRAN HAS CHASED ALMOST ALL OF US ASSETS AND PERSONNEL TO ISRAEL.
THE NEXT ATTACK ON IRAN WILL BE CHECKMATE FOR ISRAEL.
IRAQI MILITIAS, HEZBOLLAH, THE HOUTHIS, AND THE GRAND PUBA IRAN WILL UNLEASH A MERCILESS ATTACK ON THE STATE FORMERLY KNOWN AS ISRAEL AND YOU WILL WITNESS THE BIRTH OF NEW PALESTINE.
TheCondemned🇵🇸🇷🇺🇨🇳🇻🇪🇮🇷🇸🇾🇨🇺🇾🇪 retweeted
THE WORLD IS RISING. AMERICA IS NEXT.
Hundreds of thousands taking to the streets in Spain in solidarity with Palestine.
And the political establishment still thinks it can intimidate, smear, censor, and shame people into silence?
Those days are coming to an end.
You cannot bomb an entire population into submission and expect the world to look away. You cannot erase the suffering of Palestinian children with propaganda. And you cannot buy the conscience of humanity.
What we're witnessing is bigger than any political party, any lobby, or any government.
It's a global awakening. And that same demand for justice is growing right here in America.
The politicians who refuse to listen should understand something:
The people are finding their voices. And they're not asking for permission anymore.
